Class Element

• java.lang.Object
• • javax.swing.text.html.parser.Element

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, DTDConstants

public final class Element
extends Object
implements DTDConstants, Serializable

An element as described in a DTD using the ELEMENT construct. This is essential the description of a tag. It describes the type, content model, attributes, attribute types etc. It is used to correctly parse a document by the Parser.

See Also:

DTD, AttributeList

Fields

index

public int index

name

public String name

oStart

public boolean oStart

oEnd

public boolean oEnd

inclusions

public BitSet inclusions

exclusions

public BitSet exclusions

type

public int type

content

public ContentModel content

atts

public AttributeList atts

data

public Object data

A field to store user data. Mostly used to store style sheets.

Methods

getName

public String getName()

Get the name of the element.

omitStart

public boolean omitStart()

Return true if the start tag can be omitted.

omitEnd

public boolean omitEnd()

Return true if the end tag can be omitted.

getType

public int getType()

Get type.

getContent

public ContentModel getContent()

Get content model

getAttributes

public AttributeList getAttributes()

Get the attributes.

getIndex

public int getIndex()

Get index.

isEmpty

public boolean isEmpty()

Check if empty

toString

public String toString()

Convert to a string.

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

a string representation of the object.

getAttribute

public AttributeList getAttribute(String name)

Get an attribute by name.

getAttributeByValue

public AttributeList getAttributeByValue(String name)

Get an attribute by value.

name2type

public static int name2type(String nm)